From Zürich to Munich by direct train is now 221 minutes instead of 245 minutes. It'z faster, but I wouldn't call it way faster.
By bus it's 225 minutes, but the bus is often up to 30 minutes late.
By bus it's 225 minutes, but the bus is often up to 30 minutes late.
I can see why you said the train takes 221 minutes.
However, "225 minutes" for bus? I know y'all are known for punctuality, but are buses in Switzerland/Germany that precise?!
Also, is it customary to tell such durations in minutes, as opposed to something like "4 hour 45 minutes" or "4 and 3-quarter hours"?
Where I'm at, nothing runs on time unfortunately. Over here I sometimes feel arrival times of trains should just say "morning" instead of showing an actual time like 8:20 am.
Source:
https://news.sbb.ch/artikel/109510/puenktlichkeit-2021-zweit...
I say this as someone who lived in Zurich for two years.
Even if sometimes they are not punctual, the density saves you and you rarely think about it.
And there are dense schedules, so that if one bus is delayed to some problem the next one is close by, thus gap is little.
They improved the line (electrification which allows better trains, moving tran station in Lindau from the island with old town to the shore etc.) in the first year they went from 4h30 to 4h. Where the trains were standing for about half an hour at St. Magrethen at the Austrian-Swiss border. In 2021 they improved signalling and adjusted schedules and got rid of that half an hour wait, so it's now at 3h35.